Constitution Day

The Constitution, originally uploaded by bensonian.  

Vermont Lighthouse

originally uploaded by philethier. This Lighthouse, from Colchester Reef on Lake Champlain, served as home and workplace for 11 successive lighthouse keepers and their families. Visitors experience daily 19th-century life on the lake and learn about Lake Champlain history. The Lighthouse was built in 1871 to mark three reefs between Vermont and New York. Because

Book Review: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Source: www.sparknotes.com  The main theme of The Jungle is the evil of capitalism. Every event, especially in the first twenty-seven chapters of the book, is chosen deliberately to portray a particular failure of capitalism, which is, in Sinclair’s view, inhuman, destructive, unjust, brutal, and violent. The slow annihilation of Jurgis’s immigrant family at the hands of

Labor Movement History – Jim Moran and PhilaPOSH

I was a VISTA community organizer in 1979 at the Philadelphia Council of Neighborhood Organizations (PCNO), a coalition of over 200 neighborhood groups founded by a Jesuit priest, Father Joseph Kakalec. I was assigned to the Bridesburg section of the city where there were concerns that the cancer rate was much higher than the rest